a bubbling cauldron of rank miscellanyhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron
from the fingers of Ben McCorkleMon, 18 Mar 2013 15:53:55 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5Vegas, Baby: My CCCC Post-Mortemhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=608
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=608#commentsMon, 18 Mar 2013 15:50:57 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=608Back from this year’s CCCC, located in the slightly grimy Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, and not too much worse for wear, surprisingly. I wanted to share a couple of professional tidbits from the trip…

First of all, my Digital Pedagogy Poster Presentation, a synopsis/highlight of the BACKtalk student presentation assignment (thanks, Dickie Selfe and Doug Eyman, for organizing another strong collection this year):

Citation: McCorkle, Ben.”Looking Back at BACKtalks: One Instructor’s Reflections.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Session Coordinators Dickie Selfe and Doug Eyman. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas. 15 March 2013.

And secondly, a publication that dropped just in time for the conference: Stories That Speak to Us, edited by Cynthia Selfe, Scott Dewitt, and H. Lewis Ulman. Jamie Bono and I had a co-curated piece in there (and available as either a publicly accessible or downloadable Prezi, or as a PDF “walkthrough” transcript):

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=6080Upcoming Presentations (aka Rhetor Tour 2013)http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=604
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=604#commentsSat, 26 Jan 2013 19:54:22 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=604Presentation season is almost underway, and for those curious onlookers wanting to know more about the where and when of my public pronouncements (or wanting to know when the house’ll be empty so you can loot it), look no further than this post:

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=6040CORNFIELD REVIEW: Now Taking Submissionshttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=600
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=600#commentsWed, 23 Jan 2013 14:42:01 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=600It’s that time of year again, The Ohio State University at Marion … Now taking submissions for this year’s CORNFIELD REVIEW. Go to http://cornfieldreview.osu.edu/ and share your best work with us. Deadline: February 20.

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=60002012: The Year in Review(s)http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=596
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=596#commentsMon, 31 Dec 2012 14:10:56 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=596Now that my book Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse has been out for just about a year (get it here or here), a crop of reviews have begun to emerge, and for the most part, they’ve been pretty positive. In fact, the biggest quibble in the lot, and it’s not an entirely unfair criticism, is that while I take great pains to avoid whiffs of technological determinism in my argument, a kind of rhetorical determinism creeps into my phrasing from time to time. Otherwise, the reviews are decidedly blush-inducing; it’s a great feeling of validation to see that people in the wider field get what it is you’re trying to do. And now for a highlights reel:

Peter Wayne Moe, in Rhetoric Society Quarterly: “Rhetorical Delivery as Technological Discourse is an invaluable addition to recent discussions concerning delivery, broadening our understanding of delivery beyond the body, beyond medium, and into the myriad ways technology and the canon remediate each other.”

Mariana Grohowski, in Enculturation: “McCorkle’s aim is ultimately one of agency—to equip teacher-scholars of rhetoric with the imperative to understand the processes of remediation on our writing and our thinking, to harness a greater understanding of our otherwise enculturated communication practices.”

John Frederick Reynolds, in Rhetoric Review: “This is a good book. Maybe the best single-authored academic book I’ve read since Sharon Crowley’s The Methodical Memory (also SIUP) in 1990.”

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=5960Teaching Rhetoric? Start Here…http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=593
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=593#commentsFri, 21 Dec 2012 14:46:38 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=593Via The Blogora, David Beard is compiling a stockpile of syllabi of courses in rhetorical studies: surveys, seminars, period-specific, etc. I’ve contributed my own lower-level introductory course to the pile. As it grows, this will be a tidy little resource for those of you interested in developing similar courses.

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=5880MIX 2012: The Aftermath…http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=583
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=583#commentsSat, 06 Oct 2012 15:34:14 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=583You’ll recall in my previous post that I presented a talk this past Friday on using comics to teach rhetoric at the MIX 2012 Conference, CCAD’s Celebration of Comics. My panelists, Wendy Chrisman (CCAD), Nathan Wallace (OSU Marion), and Gretchen Scharnagl (Florida Int’l U) all gave great talks as well on, respectively, representations of psychiatric and mental disorders in comics, using comics to interpret British literature, and a service learning project which involved a team of art students producing a comic book for a hospital to raise awareness about childhood cancer. If you’re curious, here’s my slideshow from the event (and, if you’re even more curious, shoot me an email at mccorkle.12@osu.edu; I can send you the transcript of my remarks).

]]>http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?feed=rss2&p=5830Upcoming Panel Presentation: MIX 2012http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=578
http://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=578#commentsWed, 03 Oct 2012 21:05:01 +0000bensonhttp://rhetoricalcommons.org/bubblingcauldron/?p=578This Friday, I’ll be a panelist at this year’s MIX 2012 conference/exhibit, an event hosted by CCAD. You should go, not so much for my presentation (although it will be pretty cool), but because Chris Ware will be there—he of Jimmy Corrigan fame. But in case you’re interested in my part, I’ll be on the panel titled “A Pedagogical Mix: Utilizing Comics in Higher Education” along with Wendy Chrisman, Nathan Wallace, and Gretchen Scharnagl, talking about comics’ potential for teaching about rhetorical theory. And as my grandmother used to say, “See you in the funny papers!”